Leonard Rosenman (born September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008) was a American composer known primarily for the score of numerous motion picture soundtracks.He was a student of Arnold Schönberg, Roger Sessions and Luigi Dallapiccola. In his beginnings he worked as a teacher of piano and chamber music. In 1955, on the recommendation of James Dean, who was one of his students, he made his first film collaboration, the soundtrack to the film East of Eden, which was a great success.

From then on, he wrote music for a number of films and won two Academy Awards for best adapted soundtrack, Barry Lyndon (1975) and This Land Is My Land (1976). However, he never got the Oscar for the best original soundtrack, although he was a nominee for The Best Years of My Life in 1983 and Star Trek IV: Mission: Saving Earth in 1986.One of his lesser known works .. is the score he composed for Alejandro El Grande .. which is the one I share in my tribute to this great genius of music ..

As an avant-garde composer, he wrote twelve-tone music, undoubtedly under the influence of Schönberg, and practiced atonality. An example of this is Richard Fleischer’s (1966) music of Awesome Journey.Another of his best works was the soundtrack of the animated version of The Lord of the Rings, directed in 1978 by Ralph Bakshi.

Although his fame is due to cinematographic music, he was also a composer of classical music. In this facet one of his best known works is Concert for violin number 2, released in 1977 at Carnegie Hall.

The double lover … is a movie … of the great French director François Ozon … The film, which premiered at the last Cannes festival and reaches Spanish cinemas on September 8 …. Ozon returns to have Marine Vacth, the actress that he himself unveiled to the general public three years ago in his film Young and Beautiful, along with Jérémie Renier … and in the Soundtrack … how could it be less we have one of the best composers of our day Philippe Rombi …